On: Ask YC: How do you (or how did you), a start-up, get your first lump sum of cash?

"millionaire by the time you're age 25" ?

Is that what the kids are aiming for these days? Back when I was in high school the goal was "millionaire by the time you're age 30". Oh how times change.

Inflation.

One million is still the magic number. But in facts inflation makes one million dollars mean less and less in real terms.